Byways in southern Tuscany . MONTEMERANO CHAPTER XIV MONTELIFRE—TrEQUANDA—MaNCIANO MoNTEMERANO SaTURNIA SoVANA. OUNDING the spur of a hill a few min-utes after leaving Montisi a little castlecomes unexpectedly into view, or ratherhardly more than the meagre fragmentof a castle to which is attached what isleft of a villa. It is Montelifre, asmall trecento fortress destroyed by theMedici artillery when Cosimo took is a harsh ruin very unlike thosethat underwent a more gradual change and rents are torn in the high flat wall that confrontsyou as you approach, and beyond lie
Byways in southern Tuscany . MONTEMERANO CHAPTER XIV MONTELIFRE—TrEQUANDA—MaNCIANO MoNTEMERANO SaTURNIA SoVANA. OUNDING the spur of a hill a few min-utes after leaving Montisi a little castlecomes unexpectedly into view, or ratherhardly more than the meagre fragmentof a castle to which is attached what isleft of a villa. It is Montelifre, asmall trecento fortress destroyed by theMedici artillery when Cosimo took is a harsh ruin very unlike thosethat underwent a more gradual change and rents are torn in the high flat wall that confrontsyou as you approach, and beyond lie heaps of fallen stone,while still farther a stark tower rears itself against thesky. Nowhere has a vine or shrub taken root, no soften-ing bit of verdure lends a cloak to cover its might have met its fate within a few years 229 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY instead of a few hundred for all that nature has done tosoften its decay. Who can guess what legitimate bom-bardments the brave little place had withstood beforethat last unfair surprise, what salutes of burning pitch,what attacks of a
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